Stephen Dunn Quotes
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
Stephen Dunn
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
Patrick Lencioni
I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers
Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
Dan Stevens
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Baz Luhrmann
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
Yoon Ahn
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
Jack Keane
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
Maajid Nawaz
At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
Jimmy Smits
Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.
Mark Twain
At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
Joely Fisher
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
Stephen Dunn
